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As you know by now, President Trump ordered missile strikes on the Al Shayrat airfield in Syria Thursday night. Starting at 8:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, the US guided-missile destroyers USS Ross and USS Porter launched a total of 59 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles. This being the age of the internet, you can watch the missiles being launched (at a cost of $1.41 million a pop) in a series of YouTube videos kindly supplied by the Pentagon.

For his part, the teleprompter-in-chief handled his ceremonial role perfectly, intoning all the usual poliltical blather that we have come to expect from the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump puppets. To wit: “Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike blah de blah de blah vital national security interest of the United States da dee doo dee dum no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons etc., etc., I call on all civilized nations to join us yadda yadda.” You get the gist. (But if you really must, you can watch the whole statement here.)

And, as a man is known by the company he keeps, look at the warmongers, neocons, terrorists and other loons who are lining up to sing Trump’s praises over this glorious action:

John McCain is bloviating about the “important message” these strikes send to Assad and Russia.

Although the full aftermath of the strikes is still unknown as of press time, early reports from the Syrian national news service indicate that the strike killed nine civilians, including four children. Russian sources, meanwhile, claim that only 23 of the 50 Tomahawk missiles actually reached their target, the Al Shayrat airfield, destroying a material storage depot, a training facility, a canteen, six MiG-23 aircraft in repair hangars and a radar station.

Syrian armed forces command is confirming that six military personnel were killed in the attack. The Al Ekhbariya TV channel broadcast a statement from the Syrian Armed Forces detailing the six deaths and an unspecified number of injuries. “The US aggression is a violation of all international norms and an attempt to weaken the combat capability of the Syrian army in the fight against terrorist groups,” the Syrian armed forces command said. “Our response to this attack will be the determination to crush terrorists on Syrian soil wherever they are.”

But whatever damage the individual missiles may have inflicted in Syria, they have the potential to inflict even greater damage in the arena of global geopolitics. In this regard, Russia’s response has been of particular interest.

Most worryingly, Russia has suspended the flight data sharing agreement with the US that coordinates the two powers’ activity over Syrian airspace and prevents missiles or sorties being shot down by accident. This was the same communication hotline that the Pentagon used to notify Russia about the strike before it happened. The scrapping of the agreement can only be read as Russia’s signal that future attempts by the US to breach Syrian airspace will be treated as a hostile action and dealt with militarily.

However frayed US/Russian relations have become in this age of “Cold War 2.0,” they just got a hell of a lot worse.

In fact, it was only one week ago that everything seemed to be going in the exact opposite direction. John McCain was furious with Rex Tillerson for daring to suggest that the Syrian people should decide what happens with Assad. ISIS was on the run and the “rebels” (read: terrorist insurgency) seemed all but broken. Peace talks were about to put the final nail in the coffin of the six-year-long quest to topple the Syrian government…

…and now this. So what happened? Well, we have two stories to choose from.

The warmongers’ story is that Assad, being the most insane and suicidal leader in the history of the world, decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and gas some of his own citizens just as the world was contemplating leaving him alone.

The alternative story is that a Syrian government airstrike on Idlib hit a chemical weapons stockpile that the terrorists had stored there, thus releasing the material on its own population.

The fact that Seymour Hersh has confirmed that Hillary Clinton had approved sending sarin gas to the Libyan “rebels.”

And the fact that all of the information about the latest attack has come from the White Helmets, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and other organizations that are funded by and in the interest of the US, UK and other belligerent governments.

So we arrive back at the key question about this series of events: cui bono?

Tells it all. It was for show and according to my source who is 15km from the AP in Syria, the locals say it was for retaliation for Israeli Jet shot down and has been planned since then including the False Flag gas attack.

Putin allows Trump et al to save face, Israel gets some payback, the airport is relatively unharmed very little collateral damage considering 59 Cruise missiles were launched. Putin will replace the planes, Assad will fix the Airport, people will forget about the false flag gas attack, Trump, and the war hawks will have their “we’re in charge” moment and Raytheon will need to replace the $83mil worth of missiles spent.

Win-win and Assad stays in while all the MSM fake news saber rattling makes it sound like Assad must go. If the USA gets into this any deeper and harder I have no doubt Putin and Iran will not let this happen. And Erdogan, well, he’s in a megalomaniacal delusional world of his own and will dow whatever he needs to feed his agenda.

I think you hit the nail on the head.
I’ve been thinking about for the past couple days and come to pretty much the same conclusions that you have. It makes me wonder if Assad Is going to pretend to rebuild this airport and throw in some makeshift buildings and old planes so the war hawks can waste more money shooting up some more desert.
It wouldn’t surprise me. Maybe that way we can confine damage to one small location and avoid hurting innocence.

I think firing 59 cruise missiles was a little bit overkill, and a hell of a waste of money. But maybe the cruise missiles were getting close to their expiry date.

I have no doubt that Trump new that the gas attack was a false flag. That’s why everyone was warned ahead of time.
It might be cheaper next time though to send a Assad 5 million bucks to build a target range so the US war hawks will have something to shoot at. In that way lying corrupt fake news networks have something to report. And maybe the war hawks will shut up for a while.

World War III is not something any sane person on earth should be looking forward to.

“a hell of a waste of money” is heart-breakingly true. I wonder how many people we could feed, how much it would help for education to have $59 million+change. And, shouldn’t we rebuild the homes that were destroyed, and pay for the funerals of the people we killed? I mean it was only 7 people. Oh, that’s right, don’t want to start a pattern of helping. Got it. All I feel about this false flag is that it was money wasted and it cost a material amount of money. I think Trump is afraid of the shadow government who have no doubt made preliminary introductions by now.

I very much agree, AND I think it is happening. People are starting to wonder because it’s not supposed to be ‘this way’ whatever ‘this way’ is to them. I doubt many people had a 15-year war, and bombing the hell out of another country without even talking to Congress about it in their definition of “this way”. I think people are asking questions of each other, and the people that are aware-ish share their opinions and comments softly because a lot of people are in shock sort of (I was); the shock is because we’ve been taught to believe in the government, and many, many people do, so to lay a serious speech on ’em? It will probably alienate them at first, but this issue is so important, when they come back, be welcoming, not snide (hmmm, that last part may be more for me than you).

The point I’m trying to make is that I agree with you heartily, and I think people are starting to consider this, and we can help them figure some things out and recommending the Corbett Report. En masse occurs one person at a time, would be my guess.

My accoutn of how Trump effectively sent a message to the extremists that they can use chemical weapons and the US wont look for evidence or proof and just blame it on Assad, and in that way can easily call in US airstrikes to improve their battlefield positons https://www.facebook.com/stevechovanec/posts/10158509532025475

Nice summery of the day Mr. Corbett…. You might have to start making one of these every day (off course, i am joking as I know how much work it takes to put one of these together!!)… It is reports like this, done in less than 24 hours, that makes Corbett Report Unique in all the World Wide Web…

UN Security Council April 7 – Russia’s statement
Russia’s UN representative Vladimir Safronkov chides the United States at the Security Council Meeting for destroying mid-east countries and brings up that evidence of the chemical attacks by the Syrian regime is sorely lacking.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUSlPVJfWI&feature=youtu.be&t=1h3m47s

I find it so encouraging that comments sections on MSM articles seem to have a greater proportion of awake people vs sheeple now. For example, channel 4 news effort on the chemical attack – have a look at the comments:

Thank you for this James. This is a bit of my research which I feel is relevant to the current unfolding which you may already have.

“Gas From Israel And The Flynn Wiretapping – Behind The Deep-State Infighting Over The Trump Election” excerpt:

The former director of the CIA under Clinton, James Woolsey, went to the Wall Street Journal and offered some information (likely some true and some false) on the retired General Flynn and the lobbying businesses he was involved in. Woolsey is an arch-neoconservative. He had worked on the transition team of Trump but got fired over “growing tensions over Trump’s vision for intelligence agencies.” Flynn is the former National Security Advisor of Trump who later also got fired. Woolsey was a board member of Flynn’s former lobbying company FIG.

Woolsey claims: In September 2016 he took part in a meeting between Flynn and high level Turkish officials, including the Turkish foreign minister and the energy minister who is the son of the Turkish president Erdogan. During the meeting, Woolsey claims, a brainstorming took place over how the Turkish cult leader Fethullah Gülen could -probably by illegal means- be removed from the U.S. and handed over to Turkey.
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The meeting Woolsey described was under the “Turkish” Flynn contract. The Turkish business man, and owner of Inovo, Ekim Alptekin is a member of the Erdogan gang. But hidden at the very end of the WSJ story is the real key to understand the shady network:

Inovo hired Mr. Flynn on behalf of an Israeli company seeking to export natural gas to Turkey, the filing said, and Mr. Alptekin wanted information on the U.S.-Turkey political climate to advise the gas company about its Turkish investments.
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An Israeli company (or whoever is behind it) wants a gas pipeline to Turkey. It hires Flynn and Alptekin to arrange a positive climate for the Leviathan pipeline within the Turkish government. It offers Flynn more than half a million for a little (4-month long) influence work. His job is to create a “friendly atmosphere” for the deal by using his influence in the U.S. to accommodate Erdogan. A major point that is expected from Flynn is to arrange the handover of Gülen, by whatever means, from the U.S. to Erdogan.

Please note that former CIA head and chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, James Woolsey is on the board of Genie Energy along with Dick Cheney, Jacob Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Richardson, Larry Summers and Michael Steinhardt.

The Israeli subsidiary of Genie Energy, Afek Oil & Gas has been given permission to drill for oil on the Golan Heights. Genie Energy announced in January 2017 that it had created Atid Drilling Ltd. “an on-shore drilling services venture based in Israel to drill for oil in the Golan Heights among other places. They will expand the drilling by Genie Energy’s subsidiary Afek Oil & Gas which since the October, 2015 announcement has completed five exploratory wells in Golan Heights.”

“The creation of Atid Drilling by Genie confirms they are convinced based on the preliminary drilling results that there is something “big” in Golan. A month later, in mid-February soon after Trump is sworn in as President, Netanyahu flies to Washington to discuss US recognition of Israel’s annexation of Golan Heights.

“A few weeks later, Israel violates the Syrian airspace in an act of war, escalating tensions over the Golan Heights. Then on March 22, in an appearance before the US Senate Defense Appropriations Committee, Defense Secretary James Mattis called for Congress to formally authorize use of US military force against ISIS/DAESH in Syria.”

The Golan Heights are Syrian and are illegally occupied by Israel | December 19, 2016

Britain, Netherlands and Ireland condemn Israeli violations of international law in the Occupied Syrian Golan.

MP Tobias Ellwood* the British Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and Africa, reiterated on November 29, 2016 that the British government regards the Golan Heights as “Occupied Territory” and “[continues] to call on Israel as the Occupying Power” to “comply with its obligations under international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention.”

He issued the statement in response to a question asked by MP Richard Burden as to what discussions the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has had with Israeli officials about “demolitions, settlement expansion and land appropriation in the Occupied Syrian Golan.”

The foreign ministers of Ireland and the Netherlands also recently condemned Israeli settlement expansion, land confiscation, and oil drilling in the occupied Syrian Golan, al-Marsad: Arab Human Rights Center reports. Commenting on these developments, al-Marsad encouraged concerned parties to take action:
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International concern about the Israeli occupation over the Syrian Golan Heights has mounted since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed in April that “the Golan Heights will always remain in Israel’s hands” and “Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights.” The provocative statements inspired U.S. and EU representatives to assure the world that their respective bodies still do not consider the Golan Heights a part of Israel.

Israel forcibly transferred 130,000 Syrians from the Golan and destroyed 300 of its towns and villages in 1967 to clear the way for its illegal occupation. Estimates suggest that Israeli authorities deny the right to return to as many as half a million displaced Syrian Golan exiles today.

It would be completely naive to accept American allegations about the supposed chemical attacks on Idlib which occurred three days ago. It was an obvious and odious lie which America then passed on as fact, without allowing a full independent investigation. Yet America believed it, or at least pretended to believe it and their response was to launch 59 American Tomahawk missiles on Syrian airfield Al- Sha’ayrat in Homs province.

The Al-Sha’ayrat airbase was the place from which Syria fired anti-missile Sam rockets at attacking Israeli warplanes, two weeks ago. Syria downed one of the four warplanes, hit another and forced the remaining two fighter jets to quickly fly out of Syrian airspace.

This sent a strong message to Israel, a state which continues to illegally occupy Syrian territory, in addition to the decades long occupation of Palestine.

Russia, Israel and Iran braced for the endgame in Syria – March 17, 2017:

Netanyahu declared Israel’s agenda as the endgame in Syria unfolds: “One of the most important issues we will discuss is Iran’s attempt to make an agreement with Syria. With or without Syria’s agreement, Iran will attempt to establish a permanent military presence in Syria, both on land and at sea.

“In fact, Iran is attempting to slowly open a front with Israel in the Golan Heights.

“I will tell President Putin about my extreme opposition to this plan, and about the possibility Israel will choose to attack. I hope we will be able to come to the understandings necessary to prevent as much as possible confrontations between Russian and Israeli forces – just as we have been able to do until now.”

Donald Trump just proved who he works for (not that was any doubt on this), elections are as Larken Rose said, and the Rothschild’s are getting one more off the list. North Korea is next then Iran. Mean while they get richer along the way!

I’d like to see the issue of “Trump didn’t have the right info” brought into the spotlight. This theme creeps into the conversation from various alt-news sources, claiming that Trump did this because he had wrong information. I mention alt-news sources explicitly because main stream news providers won’t even go as far as claim that something’s off with this attack, obviously.

Lets consider this matter logically for a second. While it may be certainly very plausible Trump didn’t have correct information, since covert actions or simply truth can be hidden from someone positioned as highly as POTUS, why not honor the proper legal procedure? Does Trump not know he’s supposed to bring this issue in front of congress instead of single-handedly attacking some entity?

I submit to you that Trump knew exactly what he’s doing, going against the law, common sense and his past statements. Suggesting otherwise only serves to dilute the conversation.

Two items of concern we hear little if anything about from Western media:

1) The Golan Heights is a part of Syria occupied by Israel since the 1980’s and Condemned by a U.N. Resolution. Genie Oil Company, based in New Jersey, has recently discovered a rich oil field in the Golan Heights. The investors are the usual suspects – Jacob Rothschild, Dick Cheney among others.

2) This attack comes on the 100th anniversary of the U.S.A. entry into World War I. It represents a major step to the Israeli realization of the Yinon plan (Greater Israel Plan).

Something is strange here. I watched RT Europe this evening for 2 hours in kind of an endless-loop. The airfield runways were not damaged, no such pics shown. No damaged aircraft shown (despite claims that 6 were destroyed), no radar station damaged shown. All RT showed was a hole in an aircraft bunker, ruble in front of an aircraft bunker, a small crater and some stains on the concrete of the runway.
Unfortunately that was all in RT-TV so no link available.
Also on RT.com there is no real damage shown in any of the articles.

Is that all that 23 tomahawk hits can achieve for 800.000 EUR a piece?
Something is definitely not right here.
Why does RT not show the real damage if there is any?

In essence: The US military is seemingly not capable to execute a proper military strike and Russia seems not capable to do proper propaganda.

I normally don’t promote TYT, after they went Hillary stupid and knee jerk journalism, but this one is actually a good back and forth. (min 20:00 approx. for the nitty gritty but is not bad listening from the beginning)

The lack of real damage seems similar to the lack of victims shown before the strike on American Television. I saw the unfortunate child in a blue tarp carried by an adult and two adult males in white haz suits plastered behind the talking heads leading up to the strike. The pictures looked like a page out the Boston Marathon play book with less budget to me. Any thoughts?

RT: US missile strike killed people fighting terrorists – Assad’s top advisor – The US attack on Syria’s airbase is meant to “bolster terrorist morale” after the significant setbacks the jihadists have suffered at the hands of the Syrian army over past few weeks, President Assad’s political and media adviser, Bouthaina Shaaban said.https://youtu.be/gIcLt4ICbPs

Outside the look on that woman’s face which was priceless! Go congressman. Take that fake news! We know nothing–bottom line.

Consider this–Was there a strike either direction? Are TPTsB in bed together (Russian, US and China) posing a fake story for a larger political agenda? As I was told last night when the news hit the airwaves, “It’s cheaper to make up a story than actually use the resources and who would know unless they are on the ground in Syria without a bias? No one.” The person telling me this stated, “I’ve made up some whoppers that were swallowed by the CNN listening public hook, line and sinker. No one ever knew. That’s what we did.” We do know one thing, however, it diverts attention from the on-going impeach Trump narrative, WikiLeaks releases, Pedo-Gate and possible arrests of the elites uniting the hawks of war for the profit the elites will surely make on such a move.

Oh! I forgot. As the MSM weaves their narrative they will run lots of images of people running scared, weeping for little babies and generally being polarized into opposing groups in order to create the necessary fake sides scenario to divide us. Tried and true stuff. If the larger public does not buy into the new political narrative TPTsB may feel they have to start a real war to make the usual profits. Let’s hope we can avoid that one.

I am SO impressed to read the comments herein. Few are being fooled by the MSM narrative. And YES, I’d agree. Watch the stock market in all the acting countries. See who benefits. Thanks James.

It was my estimation, that the economy was right at the point of it obviously starting to collapse. This whole fiasco MUST have been planned, the response to the “sarin” attack was WAY too fast. This was planned long ago to divert from the massive theft happening elsewhere.

Another voice to follow regarding the recent chemical release is that of Syria native Kevork Almassian on his “Syriana Analysis” channel, where he posted the below video report, “False Flag Chemical Attack in Syria?”

Of special note are a couple of observations he makes about the event regarding two tweets which appear to reveal some extraordinary knowledge about what may have transpired. The relevant portion of the video can be found at minute 6 and 18 seconds:

On the military industrial complex angle, let’s remember that in 2014 the Pentagon proposed halting purchases of new Tomahawk missiles, stating their inventory was full. Low and behold since then, between Libya and Syria, the Pentagon found a use for those Tomahawks. Funding for new Tomahawk purchases was restored to the tune of ~$2B.

Syriana Analysis: Similar to 2013 chemical attack, the Western governments, and corporate mainstream media accusing the Syrian government of using chemical weapons, this time in Khan Shaykhun, in Idleb. This video discusses the disgusting and criminal usage of chemical weapons in Syria, indicating that it is not the Syrian government but the Islamist\terrorist groups behind the attacks. Watch:

Thanks for the links Pablo. Needless to say I had seen these already given I watch CNN almost every single day. Not because I’m some mindless zombie that believes everything CNN has to say about everything, rather because I consider myself “awake” and therefore look for the “bait and switch” or the anomaly within mainstream news “programming”.

Seems like the switch here happened the day Trump demoted Steve Bannon and removed him from the National Security Council, therefore Trump was able to sweep this major shuffle aside by launching an attack on Syria. The demotion of Bannon would have been leading the news cycle for days, but instead we’re talking about a possible mission creep into Syria.

Given Bannon helped Trump get elected on the premise Trump would be an “America first” and “no foreign entanglements” and “no regime change” type of President, this is a major shift in foreign policy.

Trump: Gotcha suckers, bwahahahahahaha!

But I think most of us here knew this was gonna happen, I however am surprised this “switch” happened so soon…I was expecting this to happen around late summer 2018 in the lead up to the mid term elections.

For me, this signals Trump will be a one term President, time is short and Syria is of utmost importance for the tail that wags the dog.

I also read that Trump / Deep state kicked out Bannon. Bannon I consider self as each politician as a professional liar. But his opponent Jared Kushner is also an evil person. I heard and read about Jared’s ties with the Chabad, Chabad-Lubavitch, or Lubavitch cult (zionists). A guest on the The Official Hagmann & Hagmann Report, Dr Ted Broer, said that the Chabad cult is funded by the Mossad.

And as we all know Jared Kushner’s wife is Ivanka Trump and they bought a house in DC.

Businesswoman Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have purchased a home in Washington DC in preparation for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. As a practicing Jewish couple, their impending move also necessitated joining a local synagogue. They Chose TheSHUL, a small synagogue run by international the Chabad Jewish community and outreach organization.http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4904168,00.html

Thanks for the links about Chabad and Kushner. I find them interesting on many levels.

One, it shows that not all Jews or even Zionists are all monolithic, they have just as many factions as the rest of the worlds religions. Two, I know a few Jewish people, and they’re good people, some are rich, some are lower middle class, so for me we are all equal under the sun.

As far as Kushner, I’m not sure what to make of him yet. We don’t know his political views really. We don’t know if he supported the attack on Syria, however if it is true that he talks to Netanyahu every Sunday, then yeah, probably safe to assume that more than likely he approved of the attack. The thing for me is that there were no senate confirmation hearings for Kushner, his appointment was pure nepotism.

And about Trump’s son in law Jared, I want to share with you some other information about his family and himself. Jared and his family are just like his father-in-law real estate moguls.

Jared Kushner’s family’s company to make $400M in new sweetheart deal with Chinese firm. The name of the Chinese firm is Anbang and Anbang is tightly connected to the Chinese government.

Anbang, a Beijing-based company with more than $250 billion in assets, is notoriously opaque. But we do know that Anbang, like many major businesses in China, is steeped in ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Its owner, Wu Xiaohui, was able to secure a set of difficult-to-obtain licenses when he created the company in 2004, in an industry mainly populated by government-owned enterprises. He’s married to the granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, the former iconic leader of China who helped oversee major reforms to the country’s economy in the 1980s.

I must say I’m mostly ignorant when it comes to China, but I have a feeling we’re about to get a crash course on China as we transition from the American century towards what appears to be a Chinese century.

As far as the West Bank is concerned, Kushner and Trump won’t get far foreign policy wise if their goal is to give Nethanhyu carte blanche in regards to Israel’s continued illegal settlements building.

Insider information transmitted to me. Trumps glass jaw is Ivanka. He loves his daughter and she has been befriended by Valerie Jarrets (Iranian born Communist Jew)”assets” and she is a taken woman and has taken them in to key positions in the WH.. She also has her fathers ear and he does love her and by association—-he is told what to do by Jared Kushner—who speaks to Netanyahu each Sunday /through her (it’s Kushner who speaks to Netanyahu on every Sunday)–and tells her what to do. (Jarret is an Iranian born Communist Jew who is Obama’s handler—a CIA/Mossad construct–quite obviously). Jerod Kushner’s real estate holdings:
666 Fifth Avenue-no shit.

I suggest this open source investigation look into what William Ayers and Bernadine Dorn are up to NOW (OPENLY Communist)—very quiet for some time–they’re up to something. Lets find out. Remember when the FBI infiltrated The Weather Underground and Ayers stated–he would have the Communists infiltrate and 30 million would be killed–(population was half what it is today–so say 100 million slaughtered–infiltration of Islamists will do that..J$ws have funded ALL of this–thats why they must be dealt with-stealth zionism via islamisism)

She and Kushner must go now or we’re done. Bannon targeted by Ivanka via Kushner. He may go soon. That must not happen or we’re back to the old Bush/Clinton/Obama days and worse. Nepotism charges is our friend. SHE MUST GO as will her zionist husband. He must be dealt with.

Cohn and Powell–I wrote about them before on this site–both zionists/bolsheviks/globalists and Communists and Goldman Sachs.

You’re a genius. They now call themselves “Progressives”. Been doing that since about 1910. Communist became Liberal and then Progressive now with several iterations in between. You weren’t the ones hiding in the basement at school in 1965 during bombing drills. Axlerod—Red Diaper Baby (look it up), got Obama in—-Ayers/Dohrn–OPENLY Communist and the last presidents best friend also worked to get this CIA/Mossad asset elected–Jarrets parents were members of the Communist party as were Axlerods. Rham Emaunuel? Bolshevik—-aka Communist. See Russian Revolution. And there are many others I could site. Hundreds in fact.

Progressive also means Gradualism–see where this nation is going and they turned up the heat lately (cause they’re losing). Heres a book you can read to do some learning—The Gulag Archipelago-I suggest you read it genius.

The entire Democratic party are full of Communists/90% of them are (not card carrying fool)—–see Agenda 21 Agenda 2030 I(Global Communism). Karl Marx also suggested using the environment as a tool towards Totalitarianism. Climate Change anyone? Read much? I doubt it. Now go back to Facebook and Twitter and leave the discussion to adults. GO TO YOUR ROOM.

Do not feel alone. Down here in the U.S.of A. they were corrupted long ago. They have a lot of practice, so the good people of Canada did not stand a chance……the criminally insane have the MSM as well.

– Tomahawks – are they that awful a technology that only half hit their targets? Or is there a slight of hand?
– What if US said they used ~50 tomahawks but only 26(?) actually hit. What if this was a ploy to turn around and sell them for millions on the black market?
Hey, fast cash! Let the tax cattle pay for it!

If they are sitting on them, they will wait until people forget the missing tomahawks… and then may use them in a another false flag. (Anyone remember the Malaysian plane just like the MH370 was spotted in Israel before flight MH17 was shot down in Ukraine?)

I have to agree to this part of the MoonOfAlabama analysis: ‘The Trump presidency had been held hostage by unfounded allegation of “Russian interference” in the U.S. elections in support of the Trump candidacy. The air strikes on Syria might have been the ransom that was demanded for the release of the hostage. His opponents are now gushing about him. The allegation of any Trump-Russia connections may now die down.’ – http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/syria-us-creates-new-air-support-request-scheme-for-al-qaeda.html#more – the further escalation he predicts at the end of that same article, that also Southfront refreshes in their latest vid, may not occur yet. Adding to that from the Saker Blog: 1. The Russians were given a warning which they, of course, passed on to the Syrians. The Americans must have assumed that this would happen. – 2. The Syrian airbase was lightly damaged: a few number of aircraft were damaged or destroyed, but many of these were in repairs and could not fly. Fuel storage tanks were destroyed. A number of aircraft bunkers were damage or destroyed. A few barracks were also destroyed. – 3. There were 6 or 7 casualties, which is very little. – 4. Crucially, the runways did not suffer. — If there is no official Russian denial about the the warning in advance, then it might be safe to assume that this is true .. then this strike is nothing more than a publicity stunt that now gives Trump some air to breathe again.

Was this a set-up from the get go? Was this whole Presidential campaign a long end play to dupe alternative anti-system conservatives?

* – “long end” or “long con” – a “short con”, or a one-time scam takes the mark for the money they happen to have on hand. “Con” here is a shortening of “confidence trick”, in which a dupe hands over valuables as a token of confidence or trust in a con man (or woman, as the case may be). Opposed to the short con is the long end, also known as the big con, the long con, and the long game. The long end is more complex than the short con and can take months or even years.http://mentalfloss.com/article/72057/11-swindling-slang-terms-grifters

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You can see the disappointment in many Trump voters in reaction to this Syrian / Russian fiasco.
Many folks voted for Trump, because they were afraid Hillary was going to continue her evil corrupt ways and bring us to the brink of war with Russia. Trump was seen as a choice against this warmongering corrupt agenda.
In a way, Hillary was the short con. Trump was the long con.

The agenda of Syria’s destruction had never changed. The agenda of rattling sabers against Russia or China had never changed.

The long con was that Americans were duped into thinking that they had a choice on the agenda.

(It is interesting to note, that the chemical false flag and missile strikes corresponded with the President of China’s visit.)

Looking back 30 years of interviews with Trump I’d have to say no. He basically said the same things he said on the campaign trail he said 25-30 years ago. If he’s a long player he must be a very, very long player.

Problem is as I see it is he loves his daughter (Ivanka) so much and she has his ear primarily. Rather than Bannon or anyone else and then you have Kushner—-a radical zionist cult member who has Ivanka on a short leash. She tells dad what do do based on Kushner pushing her. THAT is the issue in my opinion. Kushner is his glass jaw and must be removed and I mean now. He’s a little pussy doing Netanyahu’s bidding. 666 Fifth Avenue–his building–fasinating and telling. In short, she has him by the emotional balls.

The Donald who I have observed for a good 30 years is a proud WASP, rich and has always been a moderate and I believe truly loves his country. never a conservative. His daughter however is a leftist Progressive/not bright who spends much time with Chelsea Clinton—best friends in fact. Her husband, a radial zionist does the bidding for the Lukod party (Netanyahu)–period. Thats the issue based on my observations over many years.

* There is a whole paragraph that sounds like an ad for Raytheon Missiles. Why is this included in the article?

The U.S. used the latest-model Tactical Tomahawks, which can be redirected in mid-flight, transmit images to commanders and loiter over a potential target area, according to accounts by U.S. military officials who briefed reporters or spoke in interviews.

* Military was chomping at the bit to make this strike. They passed along the execute order before there was even written authorization from the WH.

Once Trump gave the go-ahead order for the Tomahawk strike, the operation moved at a rapid pace. Shortly after 4:35 p.m. New York time on Thursday, Army General Joseph Votel, the head of Central Command, received a call from Marine Corps General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, telling him to execute the attack. Votel, who was at an event on the U.S. East Coast, passed the order on via a secure video link even before the White House’s written authorization, according to one of the officials.

* Navy is ordering its last 100 Tomahawks.

The Navy says it’s buying the last 100 Tomahawks this year before ending production in favor of upgrades to the inventory and starting development on a successor “Next Generation Land Attack Weapon.”

This whole thing STINKS! Trump is butt buddies with Putin, Netanyahu his butt buddies with Trump, Putin is butt buddies Assad and China is everybody’s bitch. These guys are all in cahoots.… Any damn fool can see that

Agreed – I’ve seen a few articles explaining that the target was insignificant and lots of warning given so valuable assets were moved anyway (GSBE outlined it well above with the MoonOfAlabama article). Perhaps this from Global Research helps explain – Russia’s fifth column still desperately trying to achieve cooperation with Washington:

I am no good at geopolitics, I am merely a reader here. But I know of this french site, I am just posting the owner’s opinion here : what can be interesting, is that Thierry Meyssan repeats (in french) exactly what he writes, during the talk with the Pravda reporter : if I learned correctly how this works, this may look like a confirmation with plausible deniability from the Russian government ? The Pravda being an official outlet of the Russian governement.

The Corbett Report website is wonderful. I’ve found its search function to be wanting on several occasions. I don’t believe this is James’ fault. I don’t know if what I propose is any kind of ‘solution’ or even practical beyond further Corbett Report promotion and awareness. I’ve been thinking about this for months:

I propose to create a grand episode list (and/or several grand episode sub-sorted lists) about the Corbett Report. Not only would I like to include the topics, subject, names of people involved, interviewed, etc, but I’d also hope there’d eventually be summaries, insights, etc. Maybe transcript excerpts, but not necessarily in entirety, especially if it’s all on TCR. Of course everything would all link back to source articles, pages, videos, etc on The Corbett Report, YouTube, Global Research, NewsBud, etc. The purpose would be another searchable array, more presence on the interweb, and another redirecting channel to your, er, channel. This is potentially another internet foothold in the face of overwhelming censorship. NOT a replacement by any stretch, not even a copy, mirror, or alternative – this is ONLY organized supplemental listings and cross-listings.

Full disclosure: I have nothing to do with Vox Day, the Alt-Right, Nazis or anything like that. (I’m an Anarcho-Marxist.) I hear Vox Day owns and funds InfoGalactic. There may be stuff that I don’t like and some that I do. On the discussion page someone is adding Rudolf Hoess cited information that is censored elsewhere. I don’t care. I do care that I got banned from Wikipedia for a year. I do care that I can finally freely publish information about Truthers, James Corbett, Lionel, etc. I have no stock in InfoGalactic other than that of freedom of and access to information, good bad and ugly.

1. If Trump and all his senior staff knew this would end up being viewed as a blatant war crime, is it actually being used with Trump’s agreement as a way for him to exit office? Has he decided he can’t hack it as the Head Of the Swamp, but doesn’t want to go under the pretence of Russian hacking? So this offers a way to go out while saying “I was doing what I thought was right on humanitarian grounds”? (Plus I was acting on US Government info).

2. It is amusing to see how it finally takes an incident like this to shatter the author’s illusions of Trump-hope-and-change: “Whatever hope I had that Donald Trump would be a new kind of President, that hope is extinguished. He is a child and a moron. He committed an act of war without justification.” – Colonel W. Patrick Lang (retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces)

James,initially this looked like an open and shut case of a False Flag to escalate the war on Syria because Assad was nearer to taking control of Idlib putting him on the precipice of closing out the terrorists where they have been in control for a long time. Using CW would be highly counterproductive and would give the the Empire reason to intervene. Then I saw this from The Saker “SITREP: Important update on the US attack on Syria”: http://thesaker.is/sitrep-important-update-on-the-us-attack-on-syria/. It took a lot of luster off of devastation of the attack. Then today I saw two articles that support Saker’s idea. Moon of Alabama has this today directly supporting Saker’s thesis: “The Khan Sheikoun Show Was Trump’s Production”; http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/04/trumps-khan-sheikoun-production.html. Then I saw Robert Parry’s article on Consortium News: “Trump’s ‘Wag the Dog’ Moment”; https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/07/trumps-wag-the-dog-moment/. This seems to fit Trump’s MO, rope the dupes in then come down with the hammer and make them look foolish. The attack dogs are now eating out of his hand. Russiagate is going nowhere and when it finally ends with a big nothingburger they will look dumber than ever. Another thing, yesterday’s Gainesville Fishwrapper had a picture of USS Porter leaving Rota, Spain on the 31st so this was a pre-planned event. Here is another F/U article at The Saker on the missile failures: http://thesaker.is/syria-us-missile-strike-naval-brief-nb-0517-april-08-2017-by-ledahu/.

In these times of outrageous lies and assaults on human dignity, and on the concept of throw-away human lives, moral indignation doesn’t seem to get you anything but acid reflux. Besides, the Despicables in control of things like the US Knesset, the legacy media, and our educational systems — just to name a few — don’t appear to have any morals, so appeals in that vein are fruitless. These Despicables need to tremble in fear of the billions of us who also reside on this planet, and who won’t take this sort of thing anymore.

Having read hundreds and hundreds of comments, here and elsewhere, about the egregious attack on Syria by US Navy Tomahawk missiles (based upon non-existant credible evidence of any wrongdoing by the Assad government) I find it hard to offer any original thoughts on the matter. It may be too early, yet, to formulate what constitutes the truth. But so far I do have a few obvious take-aways.

Before I summarize those, I want to share my initial reactions to the startling news of two days ago. I live in a relatively isolated large metropolitan area that has a major army base, oil refineries, oil storage facilities, large chemical plants, and is an important transportation hub. I feared the worst possible fallout (literally) from the unbelievable rush to judgement by the US government. I was immediately resigned to dying under a thermonuclear mushroom cloud in the near future. Thanks to the many sober and considered comments from sane people all over the world I have backed away from that mental abyss.

My takeaways:

1) As James so cleverly pointed out in his prefacing remarks, we were expected to believe that Assad “…decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and gas some of his own citizens just as the world was contemplating leaving him alone.” This is a point of view that expands upon what Congressman Thomas Massie was trying to point out to that CNN media-shill anchor.

2) If indeed the US Navy launched 60 cruise missles (they have admitted one failed to launch, leaving 59 in the air, and apparently some of those may have ditched at sea) it is reported that only 23 made it to the Al-Sha’ayrat airbase target. Whether Russian interceptors shot some down, or others were rendered duds or inaccurate by Russian counter-electronic-warfare measures against the GPS guidance systems, we will have to wait for more information. At this point it seems unlikely any S-200, S-300 or S-500 anti-air missiles would have been wasted on low-level subsonic targets as more conventional air defences can do that job.

3) The short time frame between the alleged atrocity and the US military response is a total red flag, and suggests a premeditated strike awaiting a justification the public would swallow. George Soros’ White Shillmots are not the sort of credible source to base anything on. And do note the lack of skin protection for these people attending to “victims” in the published photos of the casualties that were shown to the world as “proof”. Sarin gas is absorbed through the human skin, attacks the nervous system and causes an horrific death. Where are all the White Shillmot casualties? There were actual victims, but apparently the white flat bed truck, also seen in the published photos, was observed transporting bodies to the photo-op site. The speculations surrounding this first-hand evidence suggest these were Daesh victims from Mosul or elsewhere.

4) Besides trying to get the Western public frothing for boots on the ground in Syria, there is a strong possibility that the missle attack was also a symbolic one in reprisal for Syria’s earlier shooting down — from anti-air defences at this same airbase — one of the four Israeli jets that attacked targets in Syria. Apparently a 2nd Israeli jet was damaged, and the other two high-tailed it back to base. Although I had guardedly optimistic hopes for Donald Trump as POTUS, he is clearly pro-Zionist and this becomes more obvious as we move along. I do believe that at least two major factions of the “Deep State” are at war with each other, and Trump was the choice of the Rothschilds’ business-first group, whereas Killary was the choice of the Rockefeller/neocon war-hegemony group. Zionists, whether they are in Washington, London or Tel Aviv, are openly coming out of the closet in this conflict over globalist objectives.

I do have more thoughts, but I now prefer to put my own conclusions into the care of time, until more information becomes available to us.

Just a few links that are useful in active debate as Al Qaeda gets whitewashed over by the “radical and evil” ISIS nihilists . (the only real difference is the length of their beards really) transforming the former into the inoffensive moniker of “moderate rebels”….it gets almost stomach churning the Orwellian switch

The distribution of Jihadi power brokers as of March 2016 . It is notable Idlib province (64% international and regional Salafist Jihadists, 33% political islamists and 4% secular) and west Damascus (71% Salafist jihadiists)

I just wanted to share a link that happened to be shared by one of my friends. I believe her exact wording had to do with “show that you actually care,” while the description went on to talk about the “need for hazmat suits by doctors to help the children”…needless to say, I decided to click on the link and found that it was asking for donations, obviously. I went to the tab labeled “The Conflict” and found the FIRST sentence to read “In 1971, the Assad family took power and ruled by force for 40 years, barring freedom of expression, and committing massive human rights violations.” (And so on..) Interesting….Furthermore, I noticed the bottom of the home page said “All your donations are tax exempt thanks to our fiscal sponsor: Kavod (a Jewish Organization). Considering articles such as: http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-israeli-eyes-trumps-tomahawks-correct-the-course-of-history/ – this just seemed interesting and worth sharing.

More discrediting holes in the established narrative, an eye witness doctor on site which live tweets of the injured treated in the hospital during the treatment of the victims of the Syrian “chemical attacks”.

Another detail on the supposed Sarin chemical attacks was the lack of PPE of the first responders, which the WHs (al Qaeda support group) lacked in their photo shoots. are these details damning? They claim sarin yet…. there would have been a slew of dead first responders according to these facts…?

PPE for use in the treatment of Sarin Gas.

“LEVEL C: (YELLOW ZONE): Select when the contaminant and concentration of the contaminant are known and the respiratory protection criteria factors for using Air Purifying Respirators (APR) or Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR) are met. This level is appropriate when decontaminating patient/victims.

A NIOSH-certified CBRN tight-fitting APR with a canister-type gas mask or CBRN PAPR for air levels greater than AEGL-2.
A NIOSH-certified CBRN PAPR with a loose-fitting face-piece, hood, or helmet and a filter or a combination organic vapor, acid gas, and particulate cartridge/filter combination or a continuous flow respirator for air levels greater than AEGL-1.
A hooded chemical-resistant suit that provides protection against CBRN agents.
Chemical-resistant gloves (outer).
Chemical-resistant gloves (inner).
Chemical-resistant boots with a steel toe and shank.
Escape mask, face shield, coveralls, long underwear, a hard hat worn under the chemical-resistant suit, and chemical-resistant disposable boot-covers worn over the chemical-resistant suit are optional items.”

Something that must be noted, a HUGE and sudden shift of media perspective, like day and night, all media networks and politicians, intimately petting Trump. Just yesterday they were spitting on his shoes, but today even Lindsey Graham has been snowballing him publicly , for lobbing multi millions of dollars of cruise missiles.

Gawd it’s sickening, Trump the idiot pasty, and i don’t think he even cares, now that he’s broken into the oligarchy!

Back around 2006 with the truth of 9/11 starting to ramp up, some of these characteristics might have helped rally people. But now, a decade later, these characteristics generally marginalize the alternative media.

It is now clear that the missile strike on Syria was part of the negotiation cards that Tillerson will bring to the table while negotiating with the Russians… This has clearly failed as the airport is still operational and the Russians already countered this card by opening Russian weapon vaults to the Syrians.

I noticed also today their was military exercises in Jordan close to the Syrian boarder between US / UK and Jordanian forces. (i guess this is a very small card)

The third card is “ISIS” will bomb the hell out of Russian cities just like st.petersburg.

in my opinion this is very weak hand on US side…

Can anyone else see any more US negotiation cards before Tillerson visit???

Have been looking at the various public sources of info out there concerning the makeup of the US Navy and Marine Corps elements present in the Mediterranean. There is a wealth of info in the public domain and a huge amount of specific details re composition of Navy units on the various USN websites themselves.

This is a brief summary of Navy forces most relevant to the goings on in Syria this last week or so and those that are likely to engage in any short term hostilities.

The two warships involved in last week’s strike on the Syrian airbase USS Ross (DDG 71) and USS Porter (DDG 78) are both Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers and part of a Destroyer Squadron led by Flagship USS Mount Whitney. This Squadron is identified as Task Force CTF-60 within the USN 6th Fleet.

The Destroyer Squadron has been “Forward-deployed” to Rota Naval base in Spain from where many of their routine patrols begin. There are many such Destroyer squadrons in the US Navy and this is the one currently deployed with the 6th Fleet.

Naval Station Rota (aka NAVSTA Rota) is a Spanish naval base commanded by a Spanish Rear Admiral and fully funded by the United States of America. Strategically located near the Strait of Gibraltar and at the halfway point between the United States and Southwest Asia. NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain and houses US Navy and US Marine Corps personnel, providing support for US and NATO ships. There are also small US Army and US Air Force contingents on the base

The 6th Fleet is based in the Mediterranean with HQ in Naples, Italy and is grouped under the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa (NAVEUR-NAVAF).

The Fleet’s area of responsibility (AOR) covers approximately half of the Atlantic Ocean, from the North Pole to Antarctica; as well as the Adriatic, Baltic, Barents, Black, Caspian, Mediterranean and North Seas.

The Amphibious assault force CTF-61 provides the means of delivering the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to any likely engagement. The Task Force duties are performed by what’s known as an Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) a collection of ships with specific functions

The ARG currently assigned to CTF 61 in the 6th Fleet is ARG Iwo Jima. ARGs are rotated amongst the various USN Fleets over time. This particular ARG is made up of

Apart from the core 6th Fleet itself there is usually a Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in the AOR and currently this is fulfilled by CSG 2 USS George H.W. Bush, having recently transited the Strait of Gibraltar on 2nd/Feb replacing CSG 10 Dwight D. Eisenhower which has returned to Naval Station Norfolk

Typically when a Carrier Group arrives in the command area or zone of the 6th Fleet (known as an “INCHOP”) the CSG assumes the Task Force 60 identifier. It’s not clear if that is the case but we can assume so

Interestingly CSG 12 USS Theodore Roosevelt seems to be about to embark on a mission of some sort, possibly to the Middle East? Has been home ported at Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI), Coronado, CA but seems about to set sail based on web and social media info.

I’m sure there will be others here with a more detailed understanding of typical USN configuration, glad to hear any corrections for any of the above. Also, be great if someone who speaks Russian could prepare something similar for their local Black Sea forces too.

Just now, There was a bombing in Egypt: #BREAKING: 5 killed, 42 injured in bombing near church in Egyptian city of #Tanta. #Egypt

I strongly believe the reason for this bombing is because Egypt “voted” the wrong way during the UN security council meeting two days ago.

As the largest Arab Nation… USA and Saudi was expecting Egypt to support the missile strike… Instead, Egypt spokesman said “Syria is fighting war by proxy”

The article i wish you to write should go back few years in history and try to connect dots between countries bombed by ISIS/Muslim Brotherhood and political stance required by “Western allied” countries!

You can use Open source investigation tool that appears to be very useful. 🙂 .

The claims made in this article are misleading. The reports say the U.S. trained the rebels in how to “monitor and secure [chemical weapon] stockpiles and handle weapons sites and materials.”
To me this doesn’t sound like they trained the “rebels” in how to fire these weapons but rather how to contain them so they can’t be fired. I assume the U.S. could have trained the rebels in how to do this but the evidence in this article doesn’t support that claim. Yet the author keeps purporting it without evidence. Just annoying to see.

“Obama was so timorous, and post-Bush America so traumatised, that he allowed Syria to get away with gassing its citizens to death on a mass scale. Obama said that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was a “red line”, but he crossed it and there were no consequences. So he kept doing it.”

“The very day after the Syria strike, reports emerged that the Syrian regime was using chlorine gas, in barrel bombs dropped from helicopters, on rebel-held areas.

“If these prove true, Assad still has not learnt his lesson. Will Trump follow through?”

Cheerleaders for more death and destruction from all sides. Thankfully James and others are telling truth, though seems the majority lap up the same lies again and again….

21st Century Wire publishes an RT video taken down (by Fox) off YouTube, for “copy right infringement” of the testimony of an ex US intelligence official testifying of the lack of investigation and that the likelyhood that the Russians bombed an arms bunker releasing “fertilizers” as the most probable of scenarios and that everyone important (in intelligence) knows it… there’s more testimony that Trump is getting patsied.

EXCERPT
Politifact retracted a story it published in 2014 titled, “Kerry: We got ‘100 percent’ of chemical weapons out of Syria.” John Kerry, then Secretary of State, told NBC’s Meet The Press on July 20th, 2014, “we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out.”

Upon learning of Kerry’s claim, Politifact investigated, even asking the State Department for more information. The department pointed Politifact to Ahmet Üzümcü, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, who said in a statement, “The last of the remaining chemicals identified for removal from Syria were loaded this afternoon aboard the Danish ship Ark Futura.” Fast-forward three years, and we now know that statement cannot possibly still be true — or at least not very helpful to the official narrative. After it was alleged that Bashar al Asad’s government used chemical weapons against innocents this week, Politifact withdrew its article from its site.

I don’ think all of David Icke’s topics will appeal to the general public, but his recent guest spot on the Richie Allen radio show is marvellous. He connects so many of the dots in recent geo-political history — including the recent Syria gas/missile crisis — with a seldom heard clarity:

I will now adopt his phrase “the arrogance of ignorance”, as I see the hallmarks of this in so many YouTube video comments, and elsewhere. I was also given an indelible mental image of Donald Trump as a small child in short pants craving love. An emotionally fragile little boy, who is very pliable in the hands of the background players who never stand for office.

I also take a step back from the “false flag” idea in the main part, as it’s coming to light that the Syrians and Russians are now saying that the jihadi ammunition dump did turn out to also have stored chemicals, and after the explosions the strong prevailing winds fanned the gases of those chemicals into the nearby town.

The rush to judgement with the Tomahawk cruise missile strikes is not in anyway condoned by this fact, however. Nor are the rantings of an abysmal legacy media about an unverified incident. Nobody seemed to want to wait for an independent verification that would defuse the emotional trigger value in reporting “as is”, when “as is” suited the agenda.

As I have suggested before, the military preparations for the cruise missile strikes would have had to long pre-date the actual launch. What was needed first was an excuse for the opportunity.

CNN has just been lying as the usual. They are surprised at congressmen who are against Trump the same way they are surprised at some “alleged Syrians” who are praising Trump for the unconstitutional decision.

They are going to use the opportunity to:

1) Justify Trump’s tyranny
2) Justify an internal government conflict that may lead to not raising the debt ceiling
3) Justify the dollar collapse with WW3 or its closeness

Thank you one and all for your participation in this thread over the weekend. My round-up of news from the weekend has now been posted so I’ll close down the comments here and direct all further discussion and analysis of the Syrian situation to that comment thread: